Quote: while not serious, the number of files touched by a change is a symptom of error-proneness

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Can the effort required to implement changes be … Extreme variability of the feature-level data necessitated taking … [p. 11] Some interpretations of (11) seem clear. First, … [files touched] of changes is indeed a symptom of decay; that the … dependency overhead [e.g., span of change] … can be distinguished from nominal effort (terms involving … [number of lines changed]).   Google-1   Google-2

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